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...AD and NIS and also to create the home dirs at our NetApp-Filer. Unfortunately some steps still have to be made by hand (the sysadmin copy-pastes it from a browser to a shell). I could skip one manual step (calling yppasswd) if I knew how to generate the passwd string for /var/nis/passwd: farber:oav3dV4.Mnj/.:10154153:5725:Alexander Farber,jn-05/02,,,,:/home/farber:/bin/bash Has anybody already figured out, how to do it from Perl? I'm sure there must be some way (smth. with Perl's crypt). Regards Alex PS: Here is my script: http://pastebin.com/m46057a70 feel free to modify and us...